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In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now. -- Roone Arledge
The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour. -- Dan Castellaneta
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. -- Lydia M. Child
A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens. -- Al Roker
So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different. -- Jackie Cooper
Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five songs, you should probably find 10 songs, because you're only going to get half of them cleared. It's a real collaborative effort. -- Harvey Mason, Jr.
I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock. -- Birch Bayh
When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. -- Edmund Hillary
I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne. -- John Niven
I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. -- Jay Inslee
Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground. -- Yoko Ono
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results. -- Hamilton Holt
It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles. -- Dick Vitale
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. -- Joseph Rotblat
I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives. -- Charles Kennedy
If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far. -- Loren Weisman
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We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day. -- Craig Johnson
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. -- T. S. Eliot

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